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An incident-many attitudes, points of view

Two weeks ago, I was on a holiday, when my wife and I were travelling on a Tuk-Tuk ( "Auto Rickshaw" as how it is called in India) through a crowded lane busy with after work hours traffic in Pondicherry , this incident happened which I feel worth sharing as it has some good behavioral examples of people involved and how an incident and behaviors of people can vary from different point of view. Like the famous " Subway story" of Stephen Covey, I should have this "Tuk Tuk  story" , if I ever author a book!!   My "proactive" wife while pulling money out from her purse to pay for the ride before reaching the alighting point , accidently left a Rs.100 ( 100 Rupees) note which flew out of the vehicle before I could catch. She was tensed, perplexed, not knowing what to do,  waiting for my reaction. I remained calm, which was very unusual and said " leave it! it is a loss but will be a big scene to stop the vehicle in this traffic and chasi